MSFT B2B
Microsoft VP opens Comdex with Win 2000 demos,
Linux jokes
By Dominique Deckmyn
04/18/2000 Tod Nielsen, vice president of Microsoft Corp.'s platform group, opened
Comdex/Spring in Chicago this morning with a relaxed, upbeat keynote that
extolled the virtues of Windows 2000, hinted at the forthcoming Next Generation
Windows Services and joked about Linux.
The opening keynote at Comdex/Spring, delivered last year by Bill Gates, was
handed down to Microsoft Senior Vice President Jim Allchin this year. The
little-known Nielsen was substituted for Allchin a few days before the show.
Nielsen ran through a number of demonstrations of Windows 2000 and the
forthcoming update of Windows 98, Window Me. He addressed the much-hyped
business-to-business electronic marketplaces, claiming that despite appearances
to the contrary, Microsoft is getting more than its share of that opportunity.
Nielsen demonstrated a new, Windows-powered business-to-business
marketplace for the process manufacturing industry, called ProcessPoint.
ProcessPoint is based on Windows 2000, Microsoft Exchange and an early
version of the company's BizTalk Server 2000, he said. |
